Cheap, Home Made Wi-Fi Tether

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Cheap, Home Made Wi-Fi Tether

At around $800, Nikon’s remote WT-4a should really be called the WT-F. The Wireless Transmitter sends images from camera to computer over Wi-Fi, useful for tethered shooting. It also lets you remote control your camera using Nikon’s (terrible) Camera Control 2 software.

But, like we said, it’s $800. Pete Tsai took a look and though “I can do that.” The other way to hook up a Nikon camera to a computer is via USB, so why not Wireless USB (WUSB)? He bought an off-the-shelf adapter and, with minimal tweaking, got full remote access. The price? $40.

The home brew solution actually runs quicker than the Nikon version, although it needed one small mod to make it useful. Pete’s adapter plugs into a 5v AC adapter, tying the user to a wall-wart. He fashioned a quick AA battery pack to fix this and is currently working on building the whole lot into a camera hand grip.